Some new Books on Teaching, Learning, Education, Faculty Development
•Managing Technology in Higher Education: Strategies for Transforming Teaching and Learning – Tony Bates, check out his blog if you haven’t already: http://www.tonybates.ca
◦Taking Stock: Research on Teaching and Learning in Higher Education - a book Tony Bates mentioned in this post: why the professional development model is broken.◦See also this free e-book/pdf: Effective Practice in a Digital Age
•A Guide to Faculty Development
◦See also this recent online faculty development course on developing blended learning courses: http://blended.online.ucf.edu/blendkit-course/
◦And I’ve seen this faculty development book recommended as well: Teaching What You Don’t Know
•Academically Adrift – I probably don’t even need to mention this one, it’s gotten so much attention, but here is a recent discussion and summary of responses/criticisms of the book.
•The Formative Assessment Action Plan: Practical Steps to More Successful Teaching and Learning – formative assessment is one of the most effective things you can do to improve the effectiveness of teaching and learning environments (see also work by Paul Black).
◦See also this current discussion of challenges to formative assessment
•Trends and Issues in Instructional Design and Technology – new edition (3rd) of this standard instructional design textbook
•Informed Design of Educational Technologies in Higher Education: Enhanced Learning and Teaching
•The Systems Thinking Playbook: Exercises to Stretch and Build Learning and Systems Thinking Capabilities
•Education and Technology: Key Issues and Debates
•Deconstructing Digital Natives: Young People, Technology, and the New Literacies - see also this recent post on net gen skeptic with more on how the digital natives / digital immigrants distinction is dead (or at least dying).
•The Challenge of Rethinking History Education: On Practices, Theories, and Policy
•The National Academies Press (which recently made all their books available in pdf form for free, including the How People Learn book and Engineering in K-12 Education), recently released some new education books:
◦Learning Science Through Computer Games and Simulations - See also this just published journal article: The Learning Effects of Computer Simulations in Science Education
◦Successful K-12 STEM Education:Identifying Effective Approaches in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
◦A Framework for K-12 Science Education
•Single-Case Design (pdf) – how to do research with a single class, from the Department of Education What Works group
New Books on HTML5, Canvas, Javascript
Some of these aren’t out just yet
•Making Things Move in Javascript – that’s actually a link to some free tutorials – the book is not out yet
•HTML5 Canvas
•Core HTML5: Volume 1: Canvas
•Making Isometric Social Real-Time Games with HTML5, CSS3, and Javascript
•Learning HTML5 Game Programming: A Hands-on Guide to Building Online Games Using Canvas, SVG, and WebGL
•HTML5 Cookbook
•Coredogs – some free online lessons/books on web development, drupal
New Books in Psychology, Technology, Design, Embodied Cognition
•Enaction: Toward a New Paradigm for Cognitive Science - see also this recent article The enactive approach: Theoretical sketches from cell to society
•The Primacy of Movement - Maxine Sheets-Johnstone
•Why We Make Mistakes: How We Look Without Seeing, Forget Things in Seconds, and Are All Pretty Sure We Are Way Above Average and related books such as The Invisible Gorilla: How Our Intuitions Deceive Us and The Age of American Unreason
•The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood – by James Gleick (author of Chaos)
•Exposing the Magic of Design: A Practitioner’s Guide to the Methods and Theory of Synthesis
•Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn
•The Third Teacher – exploring ways design can transform teaching
